getting close to 40
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 13:02
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I'm nearly 38..people I know keep telling me to grow up coz I'm nearly 40...what does that mean? Apparently it includes not obsessing about television shows that have died, and giving up some of my other interests....not gonna happen!!!
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Good for you!
I'm 36. This fandom is as diverse and can be. You are just lucky to know something this special.
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I'm 44 and the best motto I've heard is....
"I may grow older but I refuse to grow up!!!"
I don't know who said it but I've made it my motto for life. Bein 40 is fun, at least for me it is!!!
I wear a blaster under my Browncoat
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Grow up? All the people who I know who have "Grown Up" have lost all their passion for life. Grow older, Yes. Have more responsibilities, OK. Don't grow up though. Don't loose that passion for life or anything in your life.
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Hey I hear you man. I'm 36 and in little danger of 'growing up'. Although the way I see it I'm far more mature and responsible than people who claim me immature.
My life is organised, I don't owe money and I don't cheat on my girlfriend and ask my friends to lie about where I've been (like a few married folk I know of). I Don't drive like a licensed bandit on public roads, but I do indulge in going karting on a designated race circuit. I wax lyrical about Buffy to friends who think me bizarre because I don't obsess about watching the news and keeping up with current 'affairs' - (they aint current to me so stuff 'em).
Oh and apparently my job is immature and I ought to move to London where all the 'big' money is. Yeah right! Balls to that! I draw cartoons for a living, and my Nieces and Nephews love me for it!
Way I see it is so long as you do people no harm, they have no right telling you how to behave. No one knows what this ride is all it about.
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I'm 51, amd dress as an Independent Soldier at conventions. "growing up" is highly over-rated in that regard. My opinion, you hold down a job, take care of you and yours, pay your bills, and enjoy life...thats plenty grown up enough. and if the "enjoy life" part includes being involved in a fanbase for a cancelled TV show, and interacting with wonderful browncoated friends, well, folk who don't understand that need to mind their own business.
Commander, Alpha Company, 76th Independent Battalion
also the designated sasquatch
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I am considered very weird amongst my friends for being interested in not only a cancelled sci-fi show, but also such things as graphic novels (Gaiman and Moore) and loud guitar music.
However, I think we are more interesting as people because we don't follow the herd and act 'appropriate to our age'.
There is a poem that starts 'When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple...'. In our case, it's brown all the way!
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gorram right! 
Commander, Alpha Company, 76th Independent Battalion
also the designated sasquatch
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*Looks at alarm clock in, uh, alarm.*
Day-um! I overslept "adult" by 10 years! Oh, well, since I'm comfy in my still-warm kiddie-hood...
*rolls over and goes back to play*
Some of us NEVER grow up. *waves to indicate self*
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Originally posted by boris:
I'm nearly 38..people I know keep telling me to grow up coz I'm nearly 40...what does that mean? Apparently it includes not obsessing about television shows that have died, and giving up some of my other interests....not gonna happen!!!
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Shiny Apple--a rare treat but handle with care or I'll blow yer gorram head off!
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ha! I knew this would be the place to get rational intelligent feed back on the "growing up" issue. good to know there are more people out there who can enjoy life, and not worry about silly social concerns. to be honest, my more "mature" friends, are a pretty unhappy lot. hearty thanks to all of you.
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